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EBSmount: Automatically mount EBS devices on Amazon EC2

The 2 most annoying things about Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) I have found, is that there is no support to auto-attach an EBS on instance launch, and the need to manually mount an EBS when it's attached.

If the above annoys you as well, you're in luck! The first annoyance has been solved in the TurnKey Hub (private beta soon to be announced - request an invite here), and the second, well, is solved by EBSmount.

EBSmount is pre-installed on all the latest TurnKey AMI's, but should work without issue on any Ubuntu/Debian based system, or any other distribution that uses udev (with minor tweaks). The source code has been released on github, and the package is available in the TurnKey package archive.

Hey, we are looking for a solution that will allow us to create an AMI that acts as a file server and mount to the file server with multiple AMIs. I just want to make sure that I am reading this correctly and that this would be a possible solution.

The use case here is that we have an AMI with an attached EBS that we would then like to mount from the EBS to another AMI with an attached EBS.

No, it doesn't partition the disk. It just accepts the device you want to format/mount and does it's stuff. So in your case the full volume is being used -which is fine, and generally the way EBS volumes are used.

There isn't much point in partitioning an EBS device anyway, if you want another volume just create it. That is unless if you want to use RAID or LVM, but thats a whole other story...

This will probably be seen as a really bad question, but how do I get this installed? I'm just getting started with learning using one of the suse preinstalled AMI's from AWS. I'm not a linux guy at all, I am learning as I go.

I could see a real advantage in having "shared" access to one Network Drive between TKL Image installs.. Also, potentially the same for MySQL and/or even Windows systems looking at the same Drives so some databridges could be simplified (FoxPro to MySQL for instance).

Keep it up. The landscape is changing fast.

I should ask, what do we do if Alon and/or Liraz need to exit to something "bigger or better paying"? I would hate to see this all go away. It is really incredible the systems you have built with the bigger team!